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GREETINGS FROM THE PDX RETRO BLOG

Happy New Year's Eve 2024: Best Wishes, Messages, Quotes, Images, WhatsApp And Facebook Status ...

New year | Vintage happy new year, Vintage christmas cards, Happy new year cards

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DON LEMON IS MORE LIKE … SOUR GRAPES

Don Lemon Fetterman debate

Don Lemon calls Trump supporters ‘dumb f—ing idiots,’ mocks their ’stupid MAGA brain’ in video meltdown.     

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A TRADITION FOR THE NEW YEAR BEGAN

Historic Images - The ball was dropped for the first time in Times Square  on New Years Eve at midnight on January 1, 1907. | Facebook

The ball was dropped for the first time in Times Square
on New Years Eve at midnight on January 1, 1907.

A New Year’s Eve ball has dropped in Times Square for
over 100 years,
starting in 1907, with the exception of
1942 and 1943
when nightly “dimouts” occurred during
World War II to protect the city from attacks.

Bill Milhomme: 1907 New York Time Square Ball Drop Begins
The crowd waiting for the New Year’s tradition to begin.



Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball displayed at One Times Square, Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, in New York.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM HEINZ KETCHUP

Chronically Vintage: Adventures in vintage advertising: Heinz Ketchup


The Kraft Heinz Foods Company, formerly the H. J. Heinz
Company and commonly known as Heinz, is a
food
processing
company headquartered at One PPG Place
in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded
by
Henry J. Heinz in 1869.

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Henry John Heinz (1844 – 1919)

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TV SITCOM ACTRESS HAS DIED AT AGE 87

Linda Lavin Dead: 'Alice' Star, Tony-Winning Broadway Actor Was 87

NEW YORK (AP — Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage
actress who became a working class icon as a paper-hat
wearing waitress on the CBS – TV sitcom "Alice," has died.

Her representative, Bill Veloric, said Lavin died in Los
Angeles on Sunday of complications from recently
discovered lung cancer.

Alice (1976–1985) TV show titles 1
Linda Lavin, star of sitcom "Alice" and Tony Award winner, dies at 87 - CBS  News
Photo shows Linda Lavin (as waitress Alice Hyatt) and Vic Tayback (as Mel Sharples, owner of the diner) from "Alice."

Alice 1976-1985 : r/sitcoms

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